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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Learning Curve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Sedaris offered a job teaching a writing workshop?
(a) The scheduled professor quit at the last moment.
(b) He has been published several times.
(c) He has teaching experience.
(d) He is friends with the department chair.

2. Instead of the performance piece in the twelfth "moment," Sedaris seems to admire
(a) The metaphors apparent in the performance.
(b) The number of people attending the performance.
(c) The beauty of the ordinary world around him.
(d) The courage of the performer.

3. The Japanese cartoon Fatty and Skinny makes Sedaris sad because
(a) Fatty is unable to meet Skinny's demands and loses his friendship.
(b) Fatty always rejects Skinny in the end.
(c) Skinny always demands money from Fatty.
(d) Skinny is unable to meet Fatty's demands, and ends up friendless.

4. Two extreme facets of Paul's personality are
(a) Fighting and swearing.
(b) Eating candy and refusing to work.
(c) Studying and reading.
(d) Drinking Mountain Dew and wearing make-up.

5. Sedaris believed he was living art because
(a) He was finally off drugs and moving past performance art.
(b) He was on drugs and deluded by his own sense of self-importance.
(c) He allowed a friend to shoot him in the shoulder.
(d) He sold silk sceens of footprints.

Short Answer Questions

1. Facing his lack of artistic talent might mean

2. Miss Sampson believes Sedaris lisps because

3. What prompts Lou Sedaris to enroll his children in music lessons?

4. Mr. Mancini claims to be

5. Where music is concerned, Sedaris' father could be described as a

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